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Posted by: Forever MS
Gandalf is a wizard from World of Warcraft. He has special abilities that can only be used after cooldowns that are never specified. He can hit the ground with his staff and inflict incredible aoe damage to 1000 goblins around himbut doesn't seem to be able to do it afterwards. He can summon eagles when he is in danger...but only sometimes and not others. Is there an explanation for this? Or do we have to understand that Tolkien's intended plot twist was for future generations to discover that the world of Middle Earth was actually a video game?
Bilbo Baggins is a scared little Hobbit who is afraid to leave the Shire to go on an adventure. Fast forward two days of walking around in a forest and Bilbo encounters the first monsters he ever saw in his life: 3 giant trolls. Most warriors would be scared to go challenge them alone but Bilbo, being the little afraid hobbit that he was portrayed to be so far, is completely nonchalant about sneaking-up behind a 2-ton killing machine to try to pickpocket his giant knife that weighs half of his weight. How is that supposed to work? The whole concept of pickpocketing someone is that it needs to be something small barely attached to a layer of clothing that is not in direct contact with your skin. But Bilbo, in his first encounter with monsters in his life, is trying the Houdiniest pickpocket trick of all time by removing a 1 meter knife from a giant murdering creature's ass crack with the added thrill factor of having two other trolls facing him directly. When did he develop these two balls to rule them all?
Since the eagles are the best air taxis in town, and they are taxis since they have to be called upon first, why did Gandalf not ask them for a ride at the beginning of the movie? And why did he not ask them to drop them at the lonely mountain to make it impossible for Peter Jackson to milk a 300 page book into a trilogy? (Don't say it is explained in the books you knowledgeable nerds; a movie has to be self-reliant)
Mkay, as for Gandalf, in the book, the magic he used against the goblins he had to prepare. He secretly followed the goblins after they captured the dwarves (although in the book he was actually with them at that time and managed to just get away in time with a crack of magic that killed a few goblins) and then he hid himself where the great goblin was and he prepared the magic he was going to use to attack the goblins and turn out all of the torches to disorient the rest. He doesn't have recharge times, his magic just isn't that effective against groups unless he's able to prepare it.
In the books, Bilbo has his two sides. His Baggins side which is very respectable and calm and never does anything unexpected, and his Took side which is the side that got him on this adventure. So I guess his Took side is what got him to try and rescue the ponies.
As for the Eagles, well in the book he didn't summon them, they kinda just ran into eachother. The Eagles live on the top of the Misty Mountains and they hate goblins and other evil creatures. They saw the goblins and wargs that had surrounded the group in those trees (although in the book the Pale Orc hasn't even come up yet...its just the goblins from the mountain and the evil but intelligent wolf race called wargs). They came and grabbed the group and rescued them. Also, the eagles are an intelligent and noble race that know and are friendly to Gandalf, but aren't servants for him...he can call them but that doesn't mean they'll come.